Nanotechnology In Reverse Uses Cell To Calibrate Tools

Nanotechnology researchers at UC Davis have shown that they can use a red blood cell to calibrate a sensitive instrument, an atomic force microscope.”It turns around the rules of nanotechnology, by using biology to calibrate an instrument,” said Volkmar Heinrich, assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at UC Davis and co-author of the paper with graduate student Chawin Ounkomol.

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Filed under: Biology on May 17th, 2008